Title: Two less lonely people in the world
Pairing: Ueda x Uchi (Implied RyoDa and RyoUchi), Ryokura, OhDa friendship
Summary: Loneliness brings you close to people whom you never thought you’ll end up with(i suck at summaries)
For this chapter: The tables are turned
Chapter 01 Chapter 02 Chapter 03 Chapter 04 Chapter 05 Chapter 06
During the course of the day, Ryo was way out of his league. He was totally out of focus which never really happened before and that made his friends including Uchi. Once rehearsals were over, Uchi sat beside Ryo and handed him a bottle of water and started a conversation.
“What’s up?”
“Nothing. It’s not like you care.” Ryo coldly replied
“Oh but I do. I may not be your best friend anymore nor your lover but I still count as a friend right?”
Ryo just looked at Uchi trying to figure out where the other is leading to.
“I guess. Uchi I have something to ask you.”
“Sure what is it?”
“Did you miss me?”
“Sometimes.” Uchi answered seriously
“Sometimes?”
“Yeah, sometimes I miss you because the feeling of hurt outweighs the feeling of missing you.”
“You’ve been pretty blunt huh?”
“I’m just being honest with myself Ryo. It’s much easier moving on that way. Ueda thought me that.”
“Ueda teaching you about honesty? Like he’d been honest!” Ryo replied with a hint of annoyance and suddenly remembers the ruckus they’ve caused that morning
“Well at least he’d been honest about how he felt for you. When we were still together, and you were seeing him he called me one night and told me you were sleeping with him.”
Ryo’s eyes went wide with Uchi’s revelation.
“He did that?”
“Yeah, and he even told me he won’t be of any hindrance to our relationship and would let you decided on who to choose in the end. And so it turns out you chose neither of us.”
Ryo just couldn’t believe what he’s hearing. It’s been months since he broke off with both Ueda and Uchi and didn’t even bother knowing what happened to them since then.
“How did we end up talking about me? I was the one who’s asking what your problem.” Said Uchi attempting to shift the conversation back to its original topic “Really Ryo, what’s eating you?”
Ryo let out a heavy sigh before answering. “I have this weird feeling that something will happen. Like Ohkura would tell me something that I wouldn’t like to hear or something.”
“Maybe Karma’s finally catching up on you.”
“You believe in that shit?”
“Of course and you should too. Like if you broke people’s hearts because of your selfishness, the hurt that you’ll feel will be much worse. Much, much worse.” Replied Uchi sounding like an oracle of sorts
“Yeah right, I would feel miserable if Ohkura would suddenly leave me and tell me he’ll be staying with you. As if!”
Uchi just shook his head in disappointment and said.
“I never thought you could be this heartless.”
“You thought wrong Uchi”
“And here I thought you need comforting.” Then Uchi stood up and went back to were the others are.
***
Meanwhile in Osaka, Ohkura was busy packing his things and moving out of Ryo’s apartment and moving back to his own. But before stepping out of the apartment, he left Ryo a message of goodbye and his old phone on top of Ryo’s bed. Minutes later, he was back to his old apartment and never felt so light and happy and his apartment felt like a home just waiting for him.
Tat-chan was right; this moving out thing is very therapeutic. I feel better already.
Then his doorbell rang much to his surprise because he’s not expecting anyone coming over yet. When he opened the door, a delivery man was there with bunch of boxes addressed to him. He was about to ask who it was from when he herd his phone receive a message. He flipped his phone open and saw Ueda’s message.
To: Tacchon
From: Tat-chan
Just thought you might need a few things to help you with moving on. It’s not late for fresh start~
Ohkura just smiled and happily accepted the packages. The packages included new sets of china, bed sheets, clothes and other various amenities.
Fresh start indeed
***
Ryo came home, to find his Osaka apartment empty of Ohkura’s things. His heart started beating fast as if it were to explode out of his chest. Then he found Ohkura’s letter and so is his phone.
To Ryo:
This is for the best. I’m not going to say sorry for leaving you because I think there’s nothing to apologize about. And no Ueda nor Uchi doesn’t have anything to do with this break up; I should have done this long before.
I have one thing to ask of you. Don’t be mad at Uchi and Ueda because they’ve found happiness that doesn’t involve you.
-Ohkura Tadayoshi
Ryo sunk to floor and couldn’t quite understand how everything that had happen lead to Ohkura leaving him. He was supposed to be the one doing the leaving not the other way around. He felt hurt, betrayed, like Ohkura, Ueda and Uchi teamed together to make his life miserable. His apartment felt cold, empty and very spacious considering it was a small apartment to begin with.
***
The following morning Ryo looked like hell. He hadn’t sleep a wink last night and when he got to rehearsals with Kanjani8 he was expecting to see Tacchon in the same state his in. but Tacchon was the exact opposite. Ohkura was blooming, positive aura exuding from every part of his body.
“Ohayo!” Ohkura greeted Ryo like nothing happened while the other just shrugged off the greeting and sank beside Subaru. Minutes later Uchi arrived with a big bag of whatnots and greeted everyone good morning. Ryo had forgotten that he has to work with Uchi when he’s in Osaka too.
“Ohayo Tacchon!” Uchi greeted his friend
“Ohayo Uchi” Ohkura replied
“Ne, Uchi what’s inside your bag?” asked Yasu who began to poke the said bag
“Oh yeah, Yoko called in the other day and started to babbling about how he likes Ueda’s taste and all, so Ueda asked me to bring what Yoko asked for.” Explained Uchi and in an instant, Yoko came digging in the said bag and looked like a kid excited about opening his Christmas present.
“Yoko! You’re really selfish!” complained Subaru who’s very intrigued of the presents Yoko received.
Yoko turned around and looked at Subaru with a stupid grin on his face and said.
“I just didn’t ask for my stuffs, he got all of us stuffs too!”
And not a moment too soon, everyone was digging in the bag, except for Ryo, Uchi and Ohkura.
Uchi went closer to Ohkura and asked.
“Heard from Ueda last night you’re going to break up with Ryo. So did you?”
“Yup.”
“So how does it feel?”
“It actually feels liberating. But I think the effect is the exact opposite to Ryo”
“Sure looks like it.”
*~end of chapter 06~*
So yeah this signals the start of Ryo's miserable time of coping with sadness
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